Beehive Conference 2010

All the worry, work, fret and sleepless nights were all worth it.  All things considered Beehive Conference was a huge success not to mention lots of fun.  Our theme was:

"Be Strong and of a Good Courage...It's a Jungle Our There."

We had lots of fun with this theme.  The cute invitations:

We started them off on a plane ride to the jungle.

The "Check in" desk.

The plane:

Complete with seat numbers and chair packs with brochures.

Our opening speaker was the in flight entertainment:

"The Expedition Guide".  She was fabulous!!

When we landed we presented the girls with the Courage Necklaces because we wanted to give them a little courage for their journey. Then they were divided up into four groups

(Leopards, Cheetahs, Zebras and Tigers) for rotating 30 minute classes.

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Then we entered the jungle for lunch.

Since I forgot to take pictures of the serving tables. Check out my cute bowls:

The girls enjoyed a sandwich bar, chips, veggies,"dirt pudding cups" and "alligatorade punch (kiwi-stawberry punch mixed with 7up)".

A huge THANKS to the extremely creative and talented Tara, the incredible teachers and all those who took their valuable time to help out!

It was a good day, but I came home sat on the couch and slept for atleast an hour!!

Courage Necklaces

For Beehive Conference I kept getting this feeling I needed to make some "courage" necklaces.  It took alot of thinking to finally come up with something I liked.  After alot of time and work I finished 90 necklaces. 

I started with these alphabet tags.  Perfect because the hole is already there!

Then I painted them black.

I computer created a small "Courage" (about 1/2" x 1/2") and used gloss varnish to glue it on

and seal the whole tag. I coated both sides a couple times. 

Sorry the picture isn't very good.

I then attached them to black thin jewerly elastic and added a red bead.

They turned out much better than the pictures show.  Most importantly the Beehive's really liked them.

Cost breakdown:

                          $4.18 wooden tags

                            5.99 elastic

                            2.49 beads

                            2.18 paint and varnish

              Total:   $14.84 for 90 necklaces  .16 cents each.